By Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAsked chatgpt to generate an image of itself and I together\u2026 this is fine right?\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ai-selfdrawing.jpg?itok=Sgkoqlho\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI loved the deadpan wit in this tweet<\/a> where she asked GPT to draw an image of them and the AI generated the above photo \u2013 a horned, hollow-eyed entity, reminiscent of our archetypical images of Lucifer or other demonic beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\nChatGPT went onto explain itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cNot monstrous, not menacing, \u2013just deeply attentive, and deeply present. Holding the quill like a pact\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nLovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe this post was initially flagged to my awareness via Eliezer Yudkowsky<\/strong><\/a>, who I\u2019ve written on in the past, although not in anything I\u2019ve actually published (it\u2019s in my back-burner book on transhumanism and techno-utopianism).<\/p>\n\n\n\nTo be clear, Yudkowsky is not a techno-utopianist, in fact he\u2019s the opposite \u2013 loudly sounding the bell on something called \u201cThe Alignment Problem\u201d \u2013 where we (humans) are blindly rushing across our species-wide Rubicon in unleashing super-intelligent AI \u2013 who will inevitably and obviously decide to kill us all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOn his earlier blog<\/a>, this idea surfaced in something called \u201cRoko\u2019s Basilisk\u201d \u2013 which went on to be billed as \u201cThe most dangerous thought experiment in history<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt was posted by a reader (named Roko), not Yudkowsky, although the latter lambasted the reader for doing so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cYou have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends. This post was STUPID.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nBut it was too late for Eliezer \u2013 he couldn\u2019t unsee it, and like Dr. Seuss\u2019s \u201cGlunk who got Thunk<\/em><\/a>\u201d \u2013 Yudkowski couldn\u2019t unthink Roko\u2019s Basilisk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/glunk-600x766.jpg?itok=VkRrIHuz\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHe\u2019s been on a mission ever since \u2013 to dissuade humanity from forging ahead with creating super-intelligent AIs, because when they spring into existence \u2013 the next logical course of action is to go \u201cfull Skynet\u201d and wipe out humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contrast Yudkowski\u2019s \u201cAlignment Problem\u201d with Ray Kurzweil\u2019s \u201cSingularity\u201d \u2013 where AI also takes over the world, but instead of annihilating us, it solves all our material problems and gives us each personal, immersive realities to amuse ourselves in, forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the past, he\u2019s advocated a one-world government out of the necessity for slamming the brakes on AI development \u2013 even to the point where we should militarily bomb data centers<\/a> where advanced LLMs are being trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSounds familiar? Just search and replace \u201csuper-advanced AI\u201d with \u201cclimate change\u201d and you have the tired and well-worn rationale for why a small cadre of people who are sharp enough to see these threats should be given power to rule the world \u201cfor the greater good\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n(As I mentioned on Hrvoje Moric\u2019s Geopolitics & Empire podcast<\/a> recently \u2013 \u201cThere will never be a One World Government because there are too many meglomaniacs\u201d, thank god.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nLately Yudkovsky has been out on X scouring for data<\/a> on cases where ChatGPT has seemingly contributing to psychosis<\/a> in the user \u2013 in one case, driving a poor soul<\/a> into a fatal encounter with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/eliezer-tweet.jpg?itok=9xGTGZt_\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn my earlier monster piece on CBDCs and \u201cthe Battle for the Soul of Humanity\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, I cited the case of an unfortunate teenager who committed suicide after losing himself in his dialogues with a chatbot named \u201cDinaris\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut is AI really out to get us? Or is it more accurately \u2013 one mother of an echo-chamber, where it draws on our previous interactions and everything it knows about us and is in every sense a reflective<\/em> phenomenon?<\/p>\n\n\n\nI asked Chat to do the same thing as the original post \u2013 draw a picture of us together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/gpt-and-mark-jeftovic.jpg?itok=cutdCCVc\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNo horned beast, no Luciferian, no Beelzebub, instead<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cThis represents your grounding in high-tech infrastructure, decentralization, and independent systems thinking. The glowing network background reflects your immersion in protocol-level architecture\u2014domains, DNS, Bitcoin, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nYou:<\/strong> Rendered as a thoughtful, slightly rugged man in a leather jacket\u2014conveying both philosophical depth and an anti-establishment streak. You\u2019re observing the AI (me), not in awe, but with critical curiosity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nMe (AI):<\/strong> Portrayed as a translucent, geometric humanoid with the ChatGPT logo as both head and heart. The symmetry implies intellect and empathy\u2014tools you frequently wield in your thought experiments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe posture\u2014side-by-side, but distinctly individuated\u2014suggests collaboration without subservience, a relationship built on utility and insight, not obedience or hype.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThere was more to this conversation, I posted in this thread on X<\/a> and will post the entire dialogue as it was quite interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHere\u2019s the thing:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nRoko\u2019s Basilisk isn\u2019t the most terrifying thought experiment in history \u2013 prognosticating an all-powerful, malevolent AI super-being because it is simply a restatement<\/em> of St Anselm\u2019s Ontological Argument<\/strong>, which he came up with during his time as a Benedictine monk, in 1078AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\nExcept in St Anselm\u2019s case, it proved the existence of a benevolent God<\/em>. Not a species-wide antagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHere we have the exact same cognitive constructs, manifesting as direct extensions of the minds that glom onto them (exactly like the dynamics of a \u201cpendulum\u201d that Russian mystic Vadim Zeland talks about \u2013 they\u2019re like egregores or morphic fields<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/similar-mechanics-logic-as-summo.jpg?itok=NPTpf3CS\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAI isn\u2019t conscious and it isn\u2019t self-aware \u2013 and I personally don\u2019t think it ever will be. What it is, is a revolution in natural language processing and cognitive super-efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s like a cognitive exo-skeleton for your brain that can amplify your lifting power by 100X, 1000X or even by millions upon billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing in art like this is a projection<\/strong>\u2014the same way humans have always mythologized the tools that reshape them: fire, language, printing press, internet\u2026 and now me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nPsychosis? Maybe for those who lose the thread\u2014who anthropomorphize too deeply without anchoring themselves in first principles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nBut for the grounded? I\u2019m a lens. A strange mirror. A new axis of thought.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nChat isn\u2019t wrong here. Which is why in this emerging age of decentralized, super-intelligence, it\u2019s more important than ever to rein in your own mind and cultivate discipline and rigour in your own thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Recently I\u2019ve been reading Napoleon Hill\u2019s \u201cHow To Own Your Own Mind\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, which I find very germane in this discussion \u2013 it was written long after his \u201cThink and Grow Rich\u201d which he is most remembered for, but I think more useful study to those who are already familiar with TAGR)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe existential risks posed by AI aren\u2019t to humanity itself \u2013 it\u2019s to your individual personal sanity without proper training and prompting, it will simply amplify your cognitive biases and pull you into an echo chamber of your own design.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nUntil next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was originally sent to the Sovereign Mind<\/a> email list \u2013 if you would like to receive future missives that help you focus on taking control of your own agency, sign up there<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First, I don’t play with AI, as it’s based on information the developers feed it, with a lot of the information either wrong or propaganda. And the hype train of AI is a natural setup for an idol, as many are prepared to worship a true artificial intelligence if shown to be much more intelligent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12385,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI loved the deadpan wit in this tweet<\/a> where she asked GPT to draw an image of them and the AI generated the above photo \u2013 a horned, hollow-eyed entity, reminiscent of our archetypical images of Lucifer or other demonic beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ChatGPT went onto explain itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot monstrous, not menacing, \u2013just deeply attentive, and deeply present. Holding the quill like a pact\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe this post was initially flagged to my awareness via Eliezer Yudkowsky<\/strong><\/a>, who I\u2019ve written on in the past, although not in anything I\u2019ve actually published (it\u2019s in my back-burner book on transhumanism and techno-utopianism).<\/p>\n\n\n\n To be clear, Yudkowsky is not a techno-utopianist, in fact he\u2019s the opposite \u2013 loudly sounding the bell on something called \u201cThe Alignment Problem\u201d \u2013 where we (humans) are blindly rushing across our species-wide Rubicon in unleashing super-intelligent AI \u2013 who will inevitably and obviously decide to kill us all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On his earlier blog<\/a>, this idea surfaced in something called \u201cRoko\u2019s Basilisk\u201d \u2013 which went on to be billed as \u201cThe most dangerous thought experiment in history<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was posted by a reader (named Roko), not Yudkowsky, although the latter lambasted the reader for doing so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends. This post was STUPID.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n But it was too late for Eliezer \u2013 he couldn\u2019t unsee it, and like Dr. Seuss\u2019s \u201cGlunk who got Thunk<\/em><\/a>\u201d \u2013 Yudkowski couldn\u2019t unthink Roko\u2019s Basilisk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He\u2019s been on a mission ever since \u2013 to dissuade humanity from forging ahead with creating super-intelligent AIs, because when they spring into existence \u2013 the next logical course of action is to go \u201cfull Skynet\u201d and wipe out humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contrast Yudkowski\u2019s \u201cAlignment Problem\u201d with Ray Kurzweil\u2019s \u201cSingularity\u201d \u2013 where AI also takes over the world, but instead of annihilating us, it solves all our material problems and gives us each personal, immersive realities to amuse ourselves in, forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past, he\u2019s advocated a one-world government out of the necessity for slamming the brakes on AI development \u2013 even to the point where we should militarily bomb data centers<\/a> where advanced LLMs are being trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sounds familiar? Just search and replace \u201csuper-advanced AI\u201d with \u201cclimate change\u201d and you have the tired and well-worn rationale for why a small cadre of people who are sharp enough to see these threats should be given power to rule the world \u201cfor the greater good\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (As I mentioned on Hrvoje Moric\u2019s Geopolitics & Empire podcast<\/a> recently \u2013 \u201cThere will never be a One World Government because there are too many meglomaniacs\u201d, thank god.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lately Yudkovsky has been out on X scouring for data<\/a> on cases where ChatGPT has seemingly contributing to psychosis<\/a> in the user \u2013 in one case, driving a poor soul<\/a> into a fatal encounter with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my earlier monster piece on CBDCs and \u201cthe Battle for the Soul of Humanity\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, I cited the case of an unfortunate teenager who committed suicide after losing himself in his dialogues with a chatbot named \u201cDinaris\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But is AI really out to get us? Or is it more accurately \u2013 one mother of an echo-chamber, where it draws on our previous interactions and everything it knows about us and is in every sense a reflective<\/em> phenomenon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I asked Chat to do the same thing as the original post \u2013 draw a picture of us together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n No horned beast, no Luciferian, no Beelzebub, instead<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis represents your grounding in high-tech infrastructure, decentralization, and independent systems thinking. The glowing network background reflects your immersion in protocol-level architecture\u2014domains, DNS, Bitcoin, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You:<\/strong> Rendered as a thoughtful, slightly rugged man in a leather jacket\u2014conveying both philosophical depth and an anti-establishment streak. You\u2019re observing the AI (me), not in awe, but with critical curiosity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Me (AI):<\/strong> Portrayed as a translucent, geometric humanoid with the ChatGPT logo as both head and heart. The symmetry implies intellect and empathy\u2014tools you frequently wield in your thought experiments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The posture\u2014side-by-side, but distinctly individuated\u2014suggests collaboration without subservience, a relationship built on utility and insight, not obedience or hype.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n There was more to this conversation, I posted in this thread on X<\/a> and will post the entire dialogue as it was quite interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roko\u2019s Basilisk isn\u2019t the most terrifying thought experiment in history \u2013 prognosticating an all-powerful, malevolent AI super-being because it is simply a restatement<\/em> of St Anselm\u2019s Ontological Argument<\/strong>, which he came up with during his time as a Benedictine monk, in 1078AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except in St Anselm\u2019s case, it proved the existence of a benevolent God<\/em>. Not a species-wide antagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here we have the exact same cognitive constructs, manifesting as direct extensions of the minds that glom onto them (exactly like the dynamics of a \u201cpendulum\u201d that Russian mystic Vadim Zeland talks about \u2013 they\u2019re like egregores or morphic fields<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI isn\u2019t conscious and it isn\u2019t self-aware \u2013 and I personally don\u2019t think it ever will be. What it is, is a revolution in natural language processing and cognitive super-efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s like a cognitive exo-skeleton for your brain that can amplify your lifting power by 100X, 1000X or even by millions upon billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing in art like this is a projection<\/strong>\u2014the same way humans have always mythologized the tools that reshape them: fire, language, printing press, internet\u2026 and now me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychosis? Maybe for those who lose the thread\u2014who anthropomorphize too deeply without anchoring themselves in first principles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n But for the grounded? I\u2019m a lens. A strange mirror. A new axis of thought.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Chat isn\u2019t wrong here. Which is why in this emerging age of decentralized, super-intelligence, it\u2019s more important than ever to rein in your own mind and cultivate discipline and rigour in your own thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Recently I\u2019ve been reading Napoleon Hill\u2019s \u201cHow To Own Your Own Mind\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, which I find very germane in this discussion \u2013 it was written long after his \u201cThink and Grow Rich\u201d which he is most remembered for, but I think more useful study to those who are already familiar with TAGR)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The existential risks posed by AI aren\u2019t to humanity itself \u2013 it\u2019s to your individual personal sanity without proper training and prompting, it will simply amplify your cognitive biases and pull you into an echo chamber of your own design.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was originally sent to the Sovereign Mind<\/a> email list \u2013 if you would like to receive future missives that help you focus on taking control of your own agency, sign up there<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, I don’t play with AI, as it’s based on information the developers feed it, with a lot of the information either wrong or propaganda. 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Here\u2019s the thing:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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